IHTM04023 - Structure of the charge: what is a disposition?
The word disposition has its wide natural meaning and we regard it as
- including all forms of disposals and transfers of cash and other property, and
- including both the creation and the release or other extinguishment of any debt or other right enforceable against a person or his estate.
The legislation expressly defines disposition to include
- a disposition effected by associated operations, ( IHTM14822) IHTA84/S272
- a person’s deliberate omission to exercise a right (IHTM14810) if that omission causes the value of
- that persons estate to diminish, and
- another persons estate (or property held on discretionary trusts) to increase, IHTA84/S3 (3)
- certain future payments (IHTA8414871) made more than 12 months after a transfer for partial consideration, IHTA84/S262
- an alteration of a close company’s share or loan capital, ( IHTM04069) IHTA84/S98,
Some dispositions are expressly prevented from being transfers of value, see IHTM04151.
